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Morris tribune., 1887-04-13
A Lucky DecorntiYa Idaa-

One of the most successful "fakes' ever
worked in the artistic line was by o young
Pittsburg engraver in Chicago. He was
out of money and ont of work 1T was
several years ago, just at the beginning
of the decorative art craze One day he
was passing shell store with O friend
when an idea struck him. He was con-
siderable Of an artist as we'll as an ell.
gravcr. lie went in and proposed to the
proprietor to take some Of the shells and
paint little landscape in each and sell
them for mantel ornaments
The shrewd old proprietor said that the
thing would catch the popular fancy and
finally arranged to pay 81 q piece for
painting them. They took dozen of the
shells home and the pictures suited the
old man. The shell paintings had a great
sale, and in the next three months the
artists made little over $1,000, and
didn't work very hard either. At the end
of that period competition cut the price in
half again and they went ont of the busi-
ness, but it was Il great snap for the
amateurs while it lasted - Pittsburg Dis.
patch.
Morris tribune., 1887-04-13
Tho Lottery in France,

Hitherto the Frenchman has had pro-
found belief in the lottery, but he is now
beginning to lose faith in it, from the fact
that the chances of drawing prize are
disagreeably small and the chances of
blanks unreasonably great. This has
compelled the organizers of the lotteries,
with the concurrence of the government,
to resort to all sorts Of devices to force
their tickets down the throats of the pub
lie. Sixty per cent. is knocked off in
order to induce shopkcepers to sell their
tickets, and the shopkcepers, In their
turn, offer the tickets at reduced price
in order to make the public buy them.
Instead of getting an ordinary ticket for
admission to an exposition or fete, you
are frequently presented with lottery
ticket, which entities you to admission
and also to the chance-very slight indeed
of prize when the drawing takes
place. When such lodges are resorted to
in order to get rid of tickets, it clearly
shows that the faith in lotteries here
though they are looked after by the state
is declining. II seems likely, indeed,
that they will soon die natural DEATH
Paris Cor. ST. Louis Republican.
Morris tribune., 1887-04-13
FREE TRADE.

The reduction of internal revenue
an lhe taking Off of revenue stamps
from Proprietary Medicines, no doubt
has largely benefited I'll" consumers
as we'll rs relieving the burden of
home manufacturers. Especially is
this the case with Green's August
August Flower and Boschee's Ger
man Syrup, as the reduction of thirty
six cents per dozen has been added to
increase the size Of the bottles con-
tanning these remedies, thereby giy-
ing one-iith more medicine in the 75
cent size. The August Flower for
Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint, and
the German Syrup for Cough and
Lung troubles, have perhaps, the
largest sale OF any medicine i'll the
world. The advantage of increased
size of the bottles will he greatly ap-
preciated by the sick and afflicted, IN
every town and village in civilized
countries. Sample bottles for 10 cents
renain the same size, Amos
Morris tribune., 1887-04-13

Monteyideo Leader: The printers
bill is usually "staved OFF, until the
last moment, but We believe that the
physician has to wait just about az
long. During illness of the family
any price would seem insignificant
beside the suffering of loved ones,
but as convalesence becomes daily
more assured, the generous feeling
gradually disappers until with the APP
proach of ultimate recovery his bill
seems enormous and like paying for
"dead horse," and is allowed to run
until II bill Is sent with q request
for settlement and then they get mad
and heap uncalled for epithets upon
the man who perhaps saved their
lives
Morris tribune., 1887-04-13
Oldest Crematfonists on Earth.

alaskan Indians are perhaps the oldest
race of cremationists ON the face of the
earth. All their dead, except their medi-
cine men, are burned. The crematory is
very simple, yet nevertheless, effective.
When corpse is to be cremated, it is first
removed from the house through the hole
in the roof, or through an aperture made
in one of the walls by removing log, lit
is bad luck to carry it out through the
door and carried to funeral pyre Of
wood built in the form of hollow rect
angle, measuring four feet long, four feet
wide, and from three to six feet in depth.
The corpse is bundled into the pyre, which
is then lighted. Dry cord wood is then
thrown in on top of the corpse until the
opening Is filled The relatives sit around
the burning pile four or five hours until
everything is consumed. The cremation
is always complete. The ashes of the
dead man, and of course more or less
wood ashes, are gathered up, placed in a
wooden box and carried to q little grave
house, as it is called. Lieut.. III. T.
Monahan in Brooklyn Eagle.
Morris tribune., 1887-04-13

Living In WaShinRtnn,

Ten years ago iveried coachman or
footman was q novelty in Washington.
The officials who employed them first were
howled at as aristocrats and inlitators of
the fashions of Europe. To-day there is
not an official who has money enough to
have servant but puts him in livery. 1t
will be but o short time before powdered
wigs will be used to further distinguish
the servants of ultra fashionable families.
A high official family has already con-
suited an artist in this town concerning
new livery designs, and these designs in
clude the powdered wig. There will be
no more outcry against the wig innova-
ton than there was against the hveries of
ten years ago. 1t will be remembered
what sensation was created in New
York when Vanderbilt at the opera placed
liveried footman at the door of his box.
Arthur reproduced this in Washington,
and the Clevelands have adopted the
Arthur fashion. Cor. New
York World.
Morris tribune., 1887-04-13
Theodore Tilton's Contented Life.


Mr.. Tilton is passing now, he tells his
friends, the most peaceful and contented
years of his life. 1t is three years since
be domiciled himself in Paris, and he will
probably end his days there. He has a
floor in grand old mansion, once the
home of the Dues de Ncmours, an ancient
building on the lie de Paris, back of Notre
Dame, in the very heart of historic asso-
Citations Here he spends much of his time,
writing, reading, living happily within
himself For the rest, he is free to dine
wherever his vagrant fancy dictates, to
find companionship wherever he chooses.
Most often he is to be met late afternoons
at the Cafe Regence, one of the very few
of the famous pre-revolution resorts which
the Haussmannization of the right bank
of the Seine has left intact. Here for q
century and more have the best chess
players of Paris assembled Alfred de
Musset was habitue, and many Of the
older men remember him well.
A far more distinguished frequenter of
the Regence-whom few enough of the
company can recall having seen even in
his later life-was a certain Keen eyed,
aquiline nosed young lieutenant of artil-
lery, N. Napoleon Bonapartc A little
metal tablet is set into the dark marble of
ono of the tables recording that here the
future emperor was wont to sit and school
his mind for Marengo and Austerlitz in
the mazes of chess. 1 fancy that no dreams
of fame or of especial achievement come
now to Mr., Tilton, The work upon which
he is engaged is understood to be ephem-
eral in character-done as much for the
sake of occupation and mental relief as
anything else. His chief interest is to like
his life and to keep it smooth, uneventful,
restful, within the compass of simple de-
sires and pleasant associations.-New
York Times.
Morris tribune., 1887-04-13
SNUFF AND SNUFF TAKERS.
A Habit that is Dying Out Both NORTH
and South-SnufT DipDing.


and South-SnufT Dipping.
In the front window of nearly every big
retail tobacco store from the Battery to
Harlem is small round glass or earthen-
ware vessel, shaped not unlike a Boston
bean pot, and ornamented on the side or
across the top with a faded yellow label
with quaint, old fashioned letters on it,
Although hundreds of thousands pass
these modest little receptacles every day,
and millions of eyes run carelessly over
them, not one person in 10000 has ever
stopped to examine them or knows what
is in them, and not one in 100, 900 of the
patrons of these stores would have any ac-
curate idea of what the stuff really is,
even if they were told, so completely has
what was once the most popular and al
most the only way of using tobacco fallen
into disuse even in this tobacco consuming
age. The little bean pots contain snuff
There was a time when they would have
been the most attractive articles in a to-
bacconist's display. The poorest 'two-
fer'' that he has in stock is more sought
after now.
"We keep snuff more as a kind of ira
dition and because we can occasionally
oblige a customer with it than because
there is any profit in having it around" "
said an old Broadway tobaccOnist ''Of
course there is some little demand for it,
but not enough to pay for the room it oc-
cupies and the trouble it makes. Who
buys it? Oh! there are still some regular
snuff users left on earth, mostly old men
and women who formed the habit in the
days when it was fashionable. There are
quite a number of them in the negro col
ony, l understand. Besides them some
people use it to break up catarrh or colds
in the head. / don't sell pot a year,
however, and / can remember when !
used to sell fifty in the days before every
body smoked"
"Is there any snuff dipping here, such
as is practiced in the south?'
every little. Once in long time, per-
haps three or four times in year, some
one calls for snuff whom I can tell is a
confirmed snuff dipper. They are mostly
southern people stopping in the city. Oc-
casionally they will send their servants
here from the hotel to buy supply. Then
we may get rid of four or five pounds at
once. Snuff dipping never was popular
in the north. I don't know why. Snuff
dippers declare that it is altogether the
most satisfactory and cheapest way of
using tobacco. never saw snuff dipper
who wouldn't prefer a few grains of snuff
on an old stick that he carries in his mouth
to the finest cigar ever brought from Cuba
Or bucket full of golden Virginia leaf.
But the habit can't be introduced here,
and that's an end of it. Even in the
south, young people who never formed
the habit are beginning to look upon it as
bad form. In another generation proba
bly, such thing as stuff will be as un-
known as knee breeches are now. IN.
Y. Mail and Express.
Morris tribune., 1887-04-13
The Washington Family's Wine.

The Washingtons drank wine at their
dinners, and the collection of Washing
tons household effects in the National
museum in Washington shows that the
family possessed much aesthetic taste.
Their china contained many choice bits.
In tho collection there is an immense
punch bowl and several wine services, and
the chaplain of congress the time Wash
ington was president records a presidential
dinner at which he says that Gen. Wash
ington had silver pint cup of beer at his
plate, which he drank while eating. The
Washington family had much fine wine in
their cellars at Mount Vernon; but though
Washington drank a glass or so Of Ma
deira at his meals, there is no record of his
ever having drunk too much. That
Martha Washington appreciated the value
of good wine is evidenced by her will. In
it she gives pipe of wine to George
Washington Parke Gusts, and directs
that all the wine bottles in the Mount
Vernon vaults be equally divided between
her granddaughters and grandson.
G. CarDenter
Morris tribune., 1887-04-13
If the manuscript of speeches, SER

If the manuscript of speeches, SER
mons, law arguments, scientific, or
professional papers were printed as
they come to the printers hands,
seven in ten of great regulations
would be wrecked, the educators of
the land, the very teachers of the
grammar schools, not excepted.
There is something in the process Of
the handling of types, of reading
copy, of correcting proofs, that be-
gets an aptitude that no other in
struction can give. The mind is so
trained that it detects errors in style,
expression, and rhythm in COM
position, as the trained ear discovers
discord in music. The printer is, af-
ter all, the real protector Of literary
reputation.
Morris tribune., 1887-04-13
"Consumption Can be Cured,n

DR.. J. S. Combs OWensville. Ohio
says: II have given Scott's Emulsion
of Cod Liver Oil with Hypophosphites
to four patients with better results
than seemed possible with any
remedy. All were hereditary cases Of
Lung disease, and advanced to that
stage when Coughs, pain in the chest
frequent breathing, frequent pulse
fever and Emaciation. All these
cases have increased in weight from
16 to 28 lbs, and are now needing
any medicine"
Morris tribune., 1887-04-13

According to the new Whiteman
election law, the judges of election in
determining the residence Of any
person, for the purpose of ASCERTAIN
ing who are qualified electors, shall
be governed by the following rules so
far as they are applicable:
That place shall be held to be the
residence of a person in which his
present intention of removing there
from.
A person shall not be considered to
have lost his residence who leaves his
home to go into another state, or
county in this, for temporary pur-
poses merely.
A person shall not be considered to
have gained a residence in any county
into which he comes for temporary
purposes merely, without the inten-
tion of making such county his
home.
Ifa person go into another state,
with the intention of making it his
residence, he loses his residence in
this state.
If q person remove to another state
with the intention nofremaining there
for an indefinite time, as place of
residence, he loses his residence in
this state, notwithstanding he enter
tains the idea of returning at some
future time.
The place where mans family re-
sides shall be held to be his place of
residence; but If it be place of
temporary establishment for his
his family, or for transient purposes,
it shall be otherwise.
Ifa man have a family fixed In one
place, and he do business In another,
the former shall be considered his
place of residence; but having q
family, who has taken up his abode
with the intention of remaining, and
whose family refuses to reside with
him, shall be regarded as q citizen
and voter where he has taken up his
abode.
No person employed temporarily
in the construction or repair Of any
railroad, canal or other work of q
public nature, shall acquire a resi-
dence in any election precinct into
which he came for that purpose, so
as to entitle him to vote therein; but
this provision shall not be held to ex-
tend to station, section men who
permanently reside in such election
precinct.
The registers must give the name
of each voter, street, place Of nativity,
color, length of residence in state,
county and district, naturaiized or
declared intention date and place OF
papers and where last registered.
Morris tribune., 1887-04-13
Take Notice.,

All persons are hereby notified
against working, cultivating or seed
Pope, Swift, Grant, Traverse or Lac
Qui Parle counties without first pro-
curing lease or permission to do so
from us, at their peril. Any person
desiring to work, cultivate or seed
land III our charge will please call
and see us, and save cost and trouble.
The Stevens County Abstract and
Real Estate Agency Morris MINI.
Feb. Ia, 1887. 9tf
Morris tribune., 1887-04-13
The Depreciation OF English Land.

The depreciation in the value of Eng
lish land is witnessed by one or two state
ments published last week. We are, in
the first place, told that within a radius
of twelve miles around Louth, in Lincoln
shire, there are now %, 400 acres of land
without tenants. In the same shire the
largest farm in England has been thrown
on the owners hands. 1t is ZOO acres
in extent and the tenant paid 81 per acre.
This year a reduction of so per cent. was
made to him, but finding, although an
experienced and energetic farmer, that
even at this reduction he could not make
two ends meet, he has thrown up his
farm,-London Court Journal.
Morris tribune., 1887-04-13
Value Of Street Dirt.

"You will never have clean streets In
America" said an Italian gentleman in
the Colonnade hotel yesterday, 'as long as
you throw away the dirt. In Italy the
cleaning of the streets is sold to the high
est bidder at public auction, and the man
who gets the contract fairly scrapes the
streets to collect all the dirt he can. 1t
is then taken to a factory, where it Is
pressed into blocks, which are then sold
for fertilizing purposes. You Americans
do not seem to know that your street dirt
is valuable. I think if you would adver-
tise you would find some smart man who
would be glad to take ten years con-
tract to clean your streets for nothing.
He would get very rich."-Philadelphia
Call
Morris tribune., 1887-04-13
A Silk Knit Garter.

A novel custom still prevails among
ladies in some parts which will commend
itself to maiden ladies growing old. 1t is
said that she who puts on silk knit gar
ter the first day of the year and wears it
continuously will certainly marry during
the year It is said that the mother of q
young lady, being very much pleased with
the silken garter worn by a young lady
for this purpose, proposed to knit a " fell
saying she had sufficient confidence in the
bewitching circlet and preferred the
natural coming of the ''fellow. All the
Year Round.
Morris tribune., 1887-04-13
Expensive Collection of Pearls.

The most expensive collection of pearls
on record is that owned by the Countess
of Dudley, which is far more valuable
than the celebrated pearls belonging to the
queen. The countess has q coronet of
pearls. The top is composed of pear
shaped pearls. There is very large one
in the center, and the others are graduated
in size down to the smallest In order to
get these pear shaped pearls in the
requisite sizes and colors the jewelers.
were obliged to buy such an enormous
quantity of pearls that when the famous
necklace was completed, with earrings,
bracelets, and brooch and finger ring to
match, they had e75, 900 worth Of odd
pearls left
Morris tribune., 1887-04-13
English Political partisanship.

Political partisanship has been brought
to fine point, when the opinion expressed
by newspaper on volume of poetry is
favorable or unfavorable, according as
the poet and the paper accord in politics,
or the reverse. Looking through num-
Der of English reviews of Tennyson's last
book, we find the Conservative papers al
most unanimous in lauding it to the skies,
and the Liberal papers in condemning it.
Only The Times and Daily News are fairly
New Orleans Times Democrat.
Morris tribune., 1887-04-13
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Quixotfc Youngsters.

Every time circus or wild west show
comes here with Indians, cowboys, ETC.,
we are sure to have arrests of youngsters
who want to get off to the prairies. They
first catch the fever from reading cheap
and thrilling romances which are sup
posed to give pictures of western life, and
the sight of real live Indians and cowboys
fires their imagination to such pitch that
they will let nothing stand in the way Of
accomplishing their Quixotic enterprises.
The first act is usually to steal from their
parents, as money is the first necessity.
Then they provide themselves with rifles,
revolvers and knives.-Police Sergeant in
Globe-D Democrat.
Morris tribune., 1887-04-13
General Law Business
Transacted.
Earm and for Rent,

We have n few desirable pieces of
land to rent in different parts of
Stevens. and adjoining counties.
Persons wanting to rent will call on
us without delay.
The Stevens County Abstract and
Real Estate Agency, next door to Isl
National Bank Morris Mimi. 9tf
Morris tribune., 1887-04-13

The express companies are finding
considerable in the Interstate COM
merce law that is of interest to them.
The public will not be sorry. The ex-
press companies are eXorbitant and
independent and deserve little at
tention at the hands of our law
makers
Morris tribune., 1887-04-13
Not All Satisfied,

"And so your dear Uncle David is deadP
Was he sick long?'' ''Not great while,
but he was great sufferer. Everything,
however, was done for him that was pos
sible." 'Then, Of course, you are all
satisfied with his medical treatment?"
ooh, yes; that is to say, all of us except
Cousin John. Uncle David didn't leave
John anything but the family Bible. "--
Boston Transcript
Morris tribune., 1887-04-13

The Panhandle road accuses about
250 of its employees Of systematically
robbing their freight trains and pro-
poses to arrest and punish the whole
number. A large number ofthe men
are already behind the bars.
Morris tribune., 1887-04-13

When man attempts to rise above
the real duties Of an Office, and be-
come d dictator it is time to sit down
upon him. State Auditor Braden is
swelling up wonderfully of late and
should be sent back to private life at
the first opportunity.
Morris tribune., 1887-04-13

EDITOR TRIBUNE;
Please tell the ladies OF Morris that
Sperm oil and Turpentine in equal
parts make the best furniture polish
known.
1t should be applied freely with u
woolen cloth, then again about a
month after first application. 1t they
will try it, they will he surprized at
the satisfactory result. Tie more
rubbing the better.
HENRY HUTCHINS.
Morris tribune., 1887-04-13

If the inter State Commerce law
knocks out the peanut boy on rail-
way trains we shall hail that law as
the greatest boon Congress ever
granted down trodden people. To
pay our fare and escape the vile pea
nut boy would indeed be Il blessed re-
lief.-Big Stone County Herald.
Morris tribune., 1887-04-13

A good deal is being said lately
about the ability of young wives to
cook. The ability of young husbands
to provide them with something to
cook ought not to be entirely left out
OF the question News.
Morris tribune., 1887-04-13
LlSTOE LETTERS.

Advertised at Morris, Stevens Co.
MINI. April II, 1887.
Miss -MaFionaS. Bush, S. +. Green,
Miss Christina Hanson, G. A. Lowry,
Mrs. Kate Lee, J. G. Oldberg.
Persons calling for the above will
please say. Advertised"
M. L. ToRPEY, p. M.
Morris tribune., 1887-04-13
CARD OF THANKS,

To Mr.. and Mrs. J. +. Hartrich and
numerous others who SO kindly as
sisted at the time of and since the
burning of our house, we wish to ex-
press our sincere thanks.
MIR. AND Mrs. C.. X. LIGHT.
Morris tribune., 1887-04-13

A Texas paper says: "Ihere is
pernieious partisanship in the blind
gregariousness Of promiscuous
multitude, held to party allegiance
by mere inertia ofhahit and mechani-
cal COHESION
Morris tribune., 1887-04-13
Just Read This !!

We, the undersigned, the
Wagonmakers & Blacksmiths
of the Village of Morris, in
order to carry on our business
are obliged to adopt the follow
ing plan, and that is, to do a
Strictly Cash Business,
which will take effect March I,
1887.
KERL & WATzKE,
RIoRDAN & MURPHY,
0. K. GEsME,
J. J. P1MM,
A. ANHALT.
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Morris tribune., 1887-04-13

Duluth, St. Paul and Minneapolis
lots for sale or exchange for Stevens
county farms.
Call at my Office and see maps and
plats.
1914 HENRY HUTCHINS.
Morris tribune., 1887-04-13
The Ponv of Shetland,


What the camel Is to an Arab, the sure
footed, tough fibered pony is to the Shet-
lander. One familiar with their customs
has said that though bred wild on the
heaths, the "shelties," as the ponies are
sometimes called, can be tanned in one
night. The hunter, throwing his lasso
with skill, secures a frisky colt, and for
twenty-four hours keeps him a prisoner.
The small creature hears no other voice
than his masters; the hunter feeds and
caresses him, and gradually the terrible
restlessness subsidies. Hereafter he be-
comes docile, affestionate burden bearer
and companion. He needs no stable, and
has happy faculty Of enjoying whatever
he has to eat. A dun colored "sheltie' of
exquisite symmetry, seen by q tourist,
could stand under a dining table, and q
little lady could seat herself upon its back
without lifting her feet from the ground.
They are favorites for the saddle, and
many are sent to other countries for the
pleasure of ladies and children. n.-Harper's
Bazaar,
Morris tribune., 1887-04-13

Better times are already here.
Money is more plentiful and we be-
lieve that the produce markets will
soon be greatly improved.
Morris tribune., 1887-04-13

The village that does not work upa
little real estate boom now does not
amount to much.